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I haven't read the manga, but the fact that she had such a central role in these two episodes, that she's featured as the main character in the promotional artwork, and the fact that she's, umm, immortal, I'd guess yeah, we will see more of her.

(Plus, from what I gather, the main theme for the manga is the love between Kuromitsu and Kuro).

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Place them in a box until a quieter time | Lights down, you up and die.

Well the director, who did the animated adaptation of Death Note, sort of improved on the original ending.

Spoiler for Death Note:

While in the manga, Light's demise felt miserable, and worth to be gloated over. In the anime, the director had managed to cast a bit of pity on Light, by reminding the watchers who was Light to begin with: an idealistic teenager who wanted to change a world he felt rotten, like many teenagers had come to think as they grew up.

So let's pray that the director improve on the original Kurozuka's ending too. He had shown he have this ability with Death Note.

Episode 2 was like wtf?!?! I'm not really a big fan of disjointed storytelling. Although you can tell an entertaining story despite that, like Baccano! for example, in general for me it does more to detract from a story rather than add to it.

I'm a bit puzzled by a few events that went on, hopefully they'll clear it up sooner rather than later.

Ep3: the hits just keep on coming. I thought I liked the past. The future is a trip, too. Well written. Well directed. Great backgrounds. Good animation. Even in the little streamed version. All that plus Fujiwara Keiji and Kuwashima Houko. The sleeper hit of the season, so far. And this isn't even a genre I usually like. If this fits into any genre. Vampire historical science-fiction bloodbath romance?

Indeed, this series keeps getting better and better XD

And it is an abundance of genres rolled into one actually.

ep 3

Spoiler:

Confusing mind rape flashing backwards and forwards, now this is the sort of thing that I like watching and it gives me memories of when Touka Gettan was airing. You never get the full picture but rather jumbled up fragments where YOU have to form the picture yourself. Series like this that doesn't take events at face value is great to watch as well as to excercise some mental intelligence.

So it seems like Kuro has woken up in the future that is post apocalyptic world. WW3 has come and gone and from what I can make out, humanity has finally blown up the moon

Another interesting point of this episode is that Kuro doesn't remember anything of his past, from when he was "killed" to waking up now...well almost nothing.

He flashes back to Kuromitsu being killed by "soldiers" of the future but still in the post apocalypse time frame. This means that the flashback shouldn't be that far back from then and now.

So the big question is, where is Kuromitsu?

And who are these soldiers...the cyborg captain is damn strong, whoever he is...

Ureshii's sub of ep1 is outstanding. An excellent translation that is slightly loose in places, but only in order to better convey the spirit of the original. And the HD version is visually out of this world. This is how the show should be seen. The SHS-YuS version is good, too, but this is great.

The episode itself may be one of the best anime episodes I have ever seen, crisp and dynamic. Of course, I've now watched it four times, so the story is a little clearer to me than it was the first time. The storyboarder and animation director are Madhouse regulars, but the writer has a resume beyond anime, and the episode director has worked for other studios:

writer: Fujioka Mio 藤岡美暢 (Requiem for the Darkness; screenwriter; playwright) storyboard: Araki Tetsurou 荒木哲郎 (the series director, director of Death Note, and also director of several Galaxy Angel series) episode director: Hirao Miho 平尾みほ (director of several episodes of Shugo Chara and one of Antique Bakery)animation director: 高炅楠 (I'm not sure how to pronounce this name -- Koukyou Kusunoki?) but he/she did the same job on some episodes of NANA.

Version 1 of the Ureshii sub had a couple of minor typeface problems, but they have issued a patch to fix them. The one downside of their method of doing the OP and ED as separate files is that the ED then has some of the wrong credits in it. They have used the ED from ep2, so the credits shown are for that ep. (Checked against No Anime, No Life.)

Here is a pic from ANN of the series director, ARAKI Tetsurou, who is now 32:

Just picked this up, but I have no idea which subgroup to go with. Preference ofcourse goes to the translation.

I looked here and it seems that ShS seems to be way off compared to Ureshii and sMi. Atm I'm kind of leaning towards sMi, but I've never seen any of their work so I don't know if can trust them in finishing up.

Any advise from people who know a bit of JP, which translations seem more correct?

Just picked this up, but I have no idea which subgroup to go with. Preference ofcourse goes to the translation.

I looked here and it seems that ShS seems to be way off compared to Ureshii and sMi. Atm I'm kind of leaning towards sMi, but I've never seen any of their work so I don't know if can trust them in finishing up.

Any advise from people who know a bit of JP, which translations seem more correct?

The SHS version has better English, but Smi's sub has much better audio.

It makes sense now. When Kuro work up at the end of the second episode, he wasn't waking up from the last scene we seen before that, he was just waking up. So much has happened with him and Kuromitsu during that time, and we see just one of those scenes in episode three. So that means that Kuromitsu is still alive somewhere.

A very nice way of doing it, i must say.

Also regarding the mark that was on the the red army's helicopter and each of their hands --- it's the sme mark that was on Benkei's arm. So there's the connection.

Wonderful episode though. Absolutely loving the setting & Fujiwara Keiji voicing the kind of character he's known for doing.

It's quite clear that the same forces from before are active in this era. I'd guess they were successful in stealing the secret of 'eternal life' or atleast in producing a fake version such as that guy leading the attack on the city. What the hell are those golem like creatures though? The ones with paper over their faces. Curious about that. Seems like the regular soldiers aren't too special.